Carbureter.



PATENTBD JULY 24 o H FUNDS GARBURETER. APPLICATION FILED NOV.28,1905`.

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To/,LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .OzRo I-I. HINDs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Le Mars, Iin the county of Plymouth and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carbureters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in gas-machmes or carbureters whereinatmospheric air is utilized to take u the vapors of hydrocarbon liquidssuch, fbr instance, as gasolene; and the invention has for an object to provide means whereby the amount of gasolene taken up in the air to enrich the gas may be varied without varying the volume or pressure of the air 5 and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will ybe hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is avertical longitudinal section of a machine embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section thereof on about line 2 2 of Fig. l.

In the construction shown I employ a suitable casing or tank A, an air-inlet pipe B for conducting air under pressure to the tank, a gas oiItake-pipe C, a feed-pi e D for supplying gasolene, and a gage E fiir indicating the height of the gasolene in the tank. The gasolene-feed pipe D may be provided with a valve F, whose stem has a ointer G registering along a dial H in order t at the valve may be adjusted to vary the feed of the gasolene to accord with the operation of the machine, so the gasolene maybe supplied in proportion to the amount consumed in the manufacture of the gas. The air-pipe B extends down to a point near the surface level of the gasolene, where by means of couplings it communicates with a Vseries of branches I I, which extend laterally above the surface of the gasolene, are provided near their outer ends with depending nozzles i, which dip down into the gasolene, and are also provided above the gasolene with discharge-op enings at I2, controlled by valves I3, whose stems I4 extend upwardly through and out of the tank, so they maybe operated at will to open or close the valves I3. The valves of the several branch pipes, it willbe noticed, may be opened and closed independently, so that the air supplied to the said branch pipes may be caused to discharge through the gasolene or may be discharged above the gasolene, as desired. This indeendence of the valves for the several branch pipes is important, as it permits me to Specification of Letters Patent. `Application `filed November 28, 1905. Serial No. 289,490.

Patented July 24, 1906.

vary the amount of air forced through the gasolene without in any way varying the volume or the pressure of the air supplied to the machine, and so enables me to enrich the gas made in the machine to any desired extent within the limits of the machine.

The cou lings, as shown, comprise .crosscouplings I) and J but manifestly the particular form of the couplings may be varied without departing from the principles of my invention. I prefer in practice to employ a pipe or other upright J2, extending from the bottom of the tank to the cross-coupling J in order to support the same and the main pipe B when the parts are applied as shown in Fig. l of the drawings.

In the construction shown I employ six branch pipes; but manifestly the number of these may be varied without departing from the principles of my invention.

In operation, air being supplied at a uniform pressure and volume through the pi e B by any suitable form of air-compressor, t e valves I3 may be closed when it is desired to produce a gas of the highest carbon uality. In such case the air from the several ranch pipes will be forced through their nozzles, will be discharged into lthe gasolene, will agitate the same, and thus cause the air to take up the greatest proportion of gasolene. This may be varied by opening one or any suitable number of valves I3, thus reducing the number of air-nozzles discharging into the gasolene, so that by a simple manipulation of the valves a high or low carbon gas or a gas of any' intermediate quality may be procured without any variation in the volume or ressure of the air. The gas may be taken om the tank through the ip'e C and conducted to the point of use, or, desired, the machines may be used in batteries of two connected together and one feeding to the next in order to secure a better quality of gas.

Above the gasolene and between the same and the gas-oiftake C, I provide diaphragms K, preferably two in number and one above the other and perforated at intervals with quarter-inch holes, through which the gas may escape. These diaphragme K are important, as in' ractice the gas will rise full of gasolene bubb es, and such bubbles striking the diaphragms will be broken, permitting the fixed gas to escape through the openings in the diaphragms, and the gasolene being finely divided on the under sides of the diaphragms will be taken up by the gas, which will pass IOO into the upper chamber of the machine in the condition of a practically lXed as, as Will be understood by those skilled in t e art.

It Will be understood that the valve F may be set according to the number of nozzles discharging into the gasolene, so the supply of gasolene to the tank may thus be varied to accord with the amount consumed in the manufacture of the gas.

The apparatus, as shown, is simple, is found in use eflicient in the making of gas of any desired richness With the same volume and pressure of air, so that with the same machine I am able to make a gas with from one to siX gallons of gasolene to the thousand feet according to the use for Which the gas is designed, as Will be understood by those skilled in the art.

Having thus described invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure b v Leti ters Patent, is-

The combination of the tank, an air-supply pipe, a coupling J on said pipe, couplings J connected With the coupling J, branch pipes leading from the couplings J and provided With devices for discharging air into a body of gasolene and also With air-discharge o enings or outlets independent of those W chdischarge to the gasolene, and valves controlling said inde endent air-discharge openings of the severa branch pipes, substantially a's set forth.

OZRO H. HINDS.

Witnesses:

PERRY B. TURPIN, SoLoN C. KEMoN. 

